Job Description

Value & Access Manager

Shape market access strategies that bring life-changing treatments to the patients who need them most.

Your new role

As a Value & Access Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring Novo Nordisk's portfolio successfully reaches patients across the UK. From pre-launch planning to lifecycle management, you'll develop strategies, tools and programs that enable market entry and drive sustainable access to our medicines.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Creating market access campaigns, tools and services in collaboration with marketing and field-based teams to ensure successful and timely Market Access and uptake across the Novo Nordisk portfolio
• Developing innovative solutions and programs for field market access teams to use with key strategic accounts, aligned to identified customer needs
• Leading pre-launch market access planning and lifecycle management, including loss of exclusivity strategies for legacy brands
• Representing Market Access with European and Global Teams on product workstreams to develop timely and quality affiliate-level market access strategies and tactical plans
• Setting up and executing payer advisory boards for your accountable portfolio, whilst identifying key collaboration opportunities with the NHS at regional level
• Collaborating with HEOR, CMR, pricing, and Legal & Compliance teams to ensure campaigns meet both customer needs and regulatory requirements
• Supporting payer customers in understanding the value of Novo Nordisk medicines through real world evidence data collection solutions

Your new department

As part of Market Access you’ll sit at the heart of decision‑making that shapes how our innovations reach patients. You’ll join a collaborative, high‑calibre team known for strategic thinking, credibility, and influence. We value curiosity, challenge, and new perspectives, and we empower our team to lead conversations in the business and externally that genuinely matter.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for an experienced market access professional who thrives in complex, strategic environments. You'll bring with you:

• Degree level education or equivalent, preferably within Social/Health Sciences or Business, with proven experience in Market Access;
• Proven successful track record of broad-based market access, policy or pharmaceutical experience from in-house and/or agency environment
• Demonstrable experience of successful pre-launch market access planning, preferably in diabetes or related therapy areas
• Deep understanding of the UK healthcare and reimbursement system, with solid knowledge of market access theory and practice
• Strong strategic planning and strategy execution skills, with the ability to create comprehensive Market Access strategies for brands
• Experience of biosimilar markets, originator strategy development, and commercial pricing and tendering within industry or NHS
• Excellent influencing, presentation and training skills, with advanced oral, written and interpersonal communication abilities
• Valid driving license and willingness to travel within the UK and Europe as required
• ABPI certification and experience with approval processes for materials advantageous

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Deadline

10 April 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.